On October 30, Udo Artists announced BON JOVI's Japan shows, "BON JOVI FOREVER TOUR": two nights at Tokyo Dome on Thursday, February 25 and Saturday, February 27, 2027, the band's first visit to Japan in nine years, since 2018, according to Udo Artists. After four years off the road because of frontman Jon Bon Jovi's vocal problems, the band opened the Forever Tour at New York's Madison Square Garden on July 7, 2026, and these are its Japan dates. Tickets go first to the VIP package lottery and the Udo Premium Members presale from noon on Saturday, October 31, and general sale opens at 10:00 on Saturday, November 28.

Tokyo Dome, Thursday, February 25 at 19:00 and Saturday, February 27 at 17:00 — the prices

The shows are at Tokyo Dome on Thursday, February 25, 2027, with doors at 17:30 and the show at 19:00, and on Saturday, February 27, with doors at 15:30 and the show at 17:00. They are presented by J-WAVE, TOKYO FM and BAYFM78, with cooperation from Universal Music, and invited and produced by Udo Artists.

General seats, tax included, are ¥80,000 for Gold, ¥60,000 for Silver, ¥30,000 for Balcony, ¥24,000 for S, ¥17,000 for A and ¥10,000 for B. For groups there are three kinds of box seating, sold as sets: Masu BOX, a semi-private box (¥30,000 per person, sets of four to ten), THE 3rd PLATINUM BOX (¥30,000 per person, sets of four) and SKY TERRACE (¥24,000 per person, sets of four or five). Children under six are not admitted.

There are two VIP packages. "LEGENDARY" VIP & SIDE STAGE EXPERIENCE (¥195,000) adds to a Gold seat within the first two rows in front of the stage three songs watched from a side-stage area to the left or right of the stage, Bon Jovi signed merchandise and a merchandise set exclusive to VIPs, among other things. "FOREVER" SUPERFAN VIP EXPERIENCE (¥138,000) has a Gold seat within rows three to ten in front of the stage and the VIP merchandise set, among other things. Seats for both are allocated by lottery. The VIP packages are handled by upcoming Inc.

Presales from noon on Saturday, October 31 — general sale from 10:00 on Saturday, November 28

Booking opens at noon on Saturday, October 31. Until 11:00 on Thursday, November 5 there are two lotteries, one for the VIP packages and the Udo Premium Members presale for Gold and Silver seats, with results from 18:00 on November 5. From the same noon on October 31, Udo Premium Members can also book S seats first-come until 23:59 on Monday, November 9 (one application and up to two tickets per person per show). Udo Premium Members is a paid membership, ¥4,900 a year.

From noon on Monday, November 2, Udo Members can book S seats first-come until 18:00 on Friday, November 27 (up to four tickets per show), and Ticket Pia opens its presale for Balcony, S, A and B seats and the three kinds of box seating. General sale opens at 10:00 on Saturday, November 28, through Udo Members, Ticket Pia, eplus, Lawson Ticket and Worldwide Ticket Reservation. Udo Artists says there will be no general sale if the presales reach their allocation.

To mark the announcement, Universal Music put up a playlist for the shows on its Bon Jovi "Forever Tour" account from 8:00 on Friday, October 30, and scheduled a programme of about 100 minutes of music videos and past live footage on its international-repertoire YouTube channel from 21:00 the same day, with no archive.

The Forever Tour after four years off the road — the first visit since 2018, and Tokyo Dome since 1988

Udo Artists' biography of BON JOVI puts the band's last Japan visit in 2018, on the This House Is Not For Sale Tour, with shows at Tokyo Dome and Kyocera Dome Osaka. Frontman Jon Bon Jovi then suffered a serious decline in his vocal cords and decided on surgery in 2022. After rehabilitation and voice training, the band released Forever, their 16th album, in 2024, their 40th year.

According to BLABBERMOUTH.NET, the band returned to the stage after four years off the road on July 7, 2026, opening the Forever Tour with the first of nine shows at New York's Madison Square Garden, and went on to three nights at London's Wembley Stadium and stadium shows in Edinburgh and Dublin. On October 19, US time, they announced 2027 dates: Marvel Stadium in Melbourne on March 4 and Accor Stadium in Sydney on March 11, BST Hyde Park in London on June 24, and four North American stadiums in July and August, in East Rutherford, Chicago, Foxborough and Toronto. The two Australian shows come the week after Tokyo Dome.

The band first played Tokyo Dome at the New Year's Eve show FINAL COUNT DOWN on December 31, 1988. According to Udo Artists, these two shows make BON JOVI the only international act to have played Tokyo Dome in every decade from the 1980s to the 2020s. Their first visit to Japan was Super Rock '84 in Japan in 1984, and their second album, 7800° Fahrenheit (1985), includes "Tokyo Road".

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